Cash & Markets Advisor - (only open for Afghan nationality) Location: Kabul - Afghanistan

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

About the position:
The Cash & Markets Adviser will help NRC Afghanistan design and implement its cash activities, as well as support the coordination of cash activities across the humanitarian community in Afghanistan. The Cash & Markets Adviser will work under the Livelihoods & Food Security Specialist in Kabul.

NRC Afghanistan’s cash activities are implemented across various core competencies – in particular Emergency (emergency multi-purpose cash distributions); Shelter (cash-for-rent and cash-for-shelter construction projects); and Livelihoods and Food Security (cash-for-food and cash-for-livelihood grants), as well as through Education (child sponsorship). The Cash & Markets Adviser will therefore work very closely with all these units– providing technical support on cash-specific issues such as contracting financial service providers, protection concerns related to cash distributions, collecting and analysing post-distribution monitoring data, etc. for programme development and quality management.

NRC also co-chairs the Cash and Vouchers Working Group (CVWG) with WFP, which brings together all humanitarian actors involved in or interested in cash based programming. A key role of the Cash & Markets Adviser will be to help the Livelihoods and Food Security (LFS) Specialist to chair the CVWG. This will include organizing meetings, collecting feedback and data from CVWG members/ other partners, analysing cash-related data from partners for use by the humanitarian community, and following up on actions agreed to by CVWG members (e.g. use of a common cash post-distribution monitoring tool, harmonized reporting). It will also include actively participating in all cash-related matters in inter-agency process– in particular the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and the Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF).

For more details about about this position, please refer to attached JD attached at the bottom.